Rapper M.I.A. says she refused to meet Jay-Z’s sexist request upon signing to his label.
The “Paper Planes” artist — who was born Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam — just lately took to Instagram Reside to debate the dissolution of her once-promising musical profession, and known as out a number of well-known individuals she felt contributed to her downfall.
One noteworthy individual the “Bad Girls” rapper named was Jay-Z, who she says requested her to drastically change her look after she signed to his label Roc Nation in 2012.
“The first thing [Jay-Z] asked me to do was get plastic surgery,” M.I.A. stated in a brief clip posted by the Instagram account Livebitez a bit of over every week in the past.
She then expressed her suspicion that individuals within the music trade might watch her Instagram Reside and say that she’s merely “insecure” about her music profession dying down and she or he’s solely calling individuals out now to “massage her ego.”
“I’m not insecure because I would have got plastic surgery,” M.I.A. stated. “So their argument of ‘Maya’s fucking insecure, that’s why she needs to fucking massage her ego,’ fails. It fails because you turn around and ask … What women do you know who hasn’t had plastic surgery around [Jay-Z]? All of them have. I’m the only one who didn’t, which already proves the fact it’s not insecurity.”
M.I.A. stated if she was insecure she “would’ve done that 100 times over.”
M.I.A. joined Roc Nation in 2012 forward of her fourth album, “Matangi.” She left in 2014.
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Though the 49-year-old British-Sri Lankan musician didn’t specify which process the “Empire State Of Mind” rapper requested her to do, in a full-length model of her Instagram Reside video posted to YouTube, she listed a number of procedures individuals within the music trade have advised she get achieved.
“I’m not going to bleach my skin, no I’m not going to get a fucking nose job, no I’m not going to get fucking filler,” the Grammy-nominated musician stated 54 minutes into the video. “Because I’m 100% content, happy and at peace with exactly how God designed it. That’s why.”
Elsewhere within the video, M.I.A. does say that musician Azealia Banks was the one who advised she bleach her pores and skin to be “accepted in the music world” as a result of she’s too “dark skinned.”
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HuffPost has reached out to Jay-Z and Banks for remark however didn’t get a direct response.
M.I.A.’s allegation concerning the “99 Problems” rapper got here simply weeks earlier than he was accused of raping a 13-year-old lady in an amended lawsuit from October. On Sunday, the plaintiff, who filed as “Jane Doe,” revised her lawsuit in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs to incorporate the “Big Pimpin’” rapper. Within the swimsuit, the then-pre-teen alleges that in a 2000 home get together after the MTV Video Music Awards, Jay-Z and Diddy drugged her and took turns raping her whereas an unnamed feminine movie star watched.
